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title: Wearied by the hours passed in travelling over lava sharp as broken… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Wearied by the hours passed in travelling over lava sharp as broken glass these friends found a grass-covered resting-place and there waited for their fatigue to pass away. Who acts: Wearied hours, friends. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele,
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 20

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Wearied by the hours passed in travelling over lava sharp as broken glass these friends found a grass-covered resting-place and there waited for their fatigue to pass away.

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**Who acts:** Wearied hours, friends · **What happens:** weary, pass, find, cover, wait, pass away · **To what, where:** travelling, covered resting place

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wearied hours, friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66516:7:20
# text = Wearied by the hours passed in travelling over lava sharp as broken glass these friends found a grass-covered resting-place and there waited for their fatigue to pass away.
1	Wearied	weary	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	travelling	travelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	broken	broken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
18	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
21	resting	resting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
26	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
32	away	away	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weary** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **pass** | past | the Wearied hours |  |  | travelling |  | over lava; as broken glass | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in travelling=Location |
| 3 | **find** | past | this friends | a covered resting place |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
| 4 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | grass *compound* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **wait** | past | this friends *not said here* |  |  | there |  | for friends's fatigue | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **pass away** | to-infinitive | this friends *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **fatigue** |  | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  |  | nom fatigue «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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